Quote from: Logi on August 24, 2008, 08:49:47 PM
Natural Resources: Natural gas, petroleum, peat, copper, lead, dolomite, barite, limestone, gypsum, silver and some zinc. Key industries based on these and other natural resources include fishing, forestry, mining, livestock, and other forms of agriculture and fish farming.
Special Places:
Tynagh Mines: Concentrates of Lead and Zinc
Silvermines: Concentrates of Silver
Corrib gas project: Concentrates of natural gas (30 billion cubic metres)
Note: The Republic of Ireland includes Northern Ireland
The list of natural recourses is a bit too modern. The Corrib gas field was only discovered in 1996, and it is off shore.
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 is a good guideline on natural recourses.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Ireland
Why Republic?
Why not a Kingdom? Yarldom? Archtyrrany? Dominate?
Green: Getting it???
Haven't you forgotten it?
It is based on the philosophy that too much power in one place, in the event of corruption, would lead to drastic results.
Certainly, in a constitutional monarchy, the monarch's power is limited, but nevertheless one mind can make errors in judgement, many minds can correct each other.
The Republic of Ireland is a Meritocracy, positions are appointed by shown talent and ability, leading to generally capable leaders
Quote from: Logi on August 25, 2008, 10:48:57 AM
It is based on the philosophy that too much power in one place, in the event of corruption, would lead to drastic results.
Certainly, in a constitutional monarchy, the monarch's power is limited, but nevertheless one mind can make errors in judgement, many minds can correct each other.
But no matter the systems, in the end it is someone who will have to make a decision. Even an absolute ruler have advisors, aides, minister and friends who will help her/him with the decisions.
Quote from: Korpen on August 25, 2008, 11:16:23 AM
Quote from: Logi on August 25, 2008, 10:48:57 AM
It is based on the philosophy that too much power in one place, in the event of corruption, would lead to drastic results.
Certainly, in a constitutional monarchy, the monarch's power is limited, but nevertheless one mind can make errors in judgement, many minds can correct each other.
But no matter the systems, in the end it is someone who will have to make a decision. Even an absolute ruler have advisors, aides, minister and friends how will help her/him with the decisions.
A bad ruler gets the chop ...
Borys
@Korpen
In a republic, the group makes a decision. In a monarchy, even though the Monarch has many aides and adviosrs to help him, it is, in the end, the monarch who makes the decision.
@Borys
Yes, a bad ruler gets the chop, however he only gets the chop if he messes up pretty badly (Or its a revolution). Its pretty hard to chop a ruler unless his guards hate him too. If the peasants fight back to chop the ruler, it causes chaos and bloodshed. Also after a revolt, the new government tends to not be a monarchy (there are cases of monarchy taken over by a monarchy)
Quote from: Logi on August 25, 2008, 11:53:37 AM
@Korpen
In a republic, the group makes a decision. In a monarchy, even though the Monarch has many aides and adviosrs to help him, it is, in the end, the monarch who makes the decision.
Ok, I bite.
Neither republic nor Monarchy say anything about how the power of decision is distributed in the state in question. In Sweden today, the Monarch have zero formal power for example. While examples of republics can be states such as the Soviet Union under Stalin, Chile under Pinochet or North Korea today.
I get the impression that what you are talking about is autocracy vs. democracy, rather then republic vs. monarchy.
Ok, I admit that, but Ireland is a Republic :P
About the technos...
We are in dec 1912 begin 1913.
For a new Player, IMO, I think that he could start 6 to 7 years early
That mean that Logi had all 1905- 1906 technos.
Jef ;)
Ireland has extremely little capacity to research - or even to digest other people's research. I don't think there's an option to push everything along - he'd have to be selective.
We could give some technos for welcome present.
:D :D :D
(present janv 1913- active janv 1914)
Jef ;)
Nope, economical pressure stopped research for military purposes.
Quote from: maddox on August 26, 2008, 07:44:47 AM
Nope, economical pressure stopped research for military purposes.
Or one note that the tech that was marked green was removed and four tech were marked red instead...
Any chance of a listing of available Irish slips, drydocks, and ports? Seems no one ever got around to that. I also wonder which Ballycastle, though I presume the one in Contae Mhaigh Eo. But why there instead of Galway or even Cork?
I will try to put that up tonight.
QuoteAny chance of a listing of available Irish slips, drydocks, and ports? Seems no one ever got around to that. I also wonder which Ballycastle, though I presume the one in Contae Mhaigh Eo. But why there instead of Galway or even Cork?
Ballycastle, County Antrim actually. There is a dock there due to a deal Eire had with the UNK but the UNK failed to uphold it's end of the bargain.
That reminds me; Note to Snip: You're going to need a dock on the West Side of Eire.
Listing's in the Sim Report, but none in Encyclopedia.
QuotePorts
Dublin - Type 2
D2: Idle
D1: Idle
S1: Idle
S0: Idle
Belfast - Type 0
D0: Idle
S0: Idle
Ballycastle - Type 0
D0: Idle
You can build a little port in the city of Cork too. It's the better port on the South of Ireland.
Ok, so you have Dublin, Belfast, and ~200m away Ballycastle? WTH for? UNK not have enough slips on the Clydebank? They musta offered you a princess or something. For western ports I recommend the afore mentioned Galway (Central/Northern Southwest). If you want a southern port Cork probably is your best choice. Depending on the depths of the channel in from the Irish Sea, Limerick would make a ney impossible to take by sea port. It's so far inland you could just set minefield after minefield and MTBs and artillery. Now if they come by land your fooked.
Remember, to speak Irish just repeat these words "Whale, Oil, Beef, Hooked." ;)
Ive been looking into building a port on the west side, and I really want to. Whether I can or not is a different matter ($$$$$$$$$$$)
Quote from: snip on July 29, 2010, 06:00:32 PM
Ive been looking into building a port on the west side, and I really want to. Whether I can or not is a different matter ($$$$$$$$$$$)
How big, how soon, and how much blood (for the pen to sign..jeez...)
QuoteI'm shocked and appalled that good, Catholic Irishmen would overlook good, Catholic Iberia and good Catholic Gran Colombia as potential friends and saviors on the world stage.
Thought I'd try posting this in the right nation's encyclopedia.
Quote from: The Rock Doctor on August 04, 2010, 08:18:02 PM
QuoteI'm shocked and appalled that good, Catholic Irishmen would overlook good, Catholic Iberia and good Catholic Gran Colombia as potential friends and saviors on the world stage.
Not to mention Good Catholic Bavaria, Good Catholic Italy (Home of the Pope), Catholic Austria-Hungary, and Catholic (yes, we're not Lutheran here) Brandenburg.
And umm....."Good" Romania.
If you want to do diplomatic stuff, feel free to PM me. That is the surefire way of starting a diolog. I might get around to it on my own ::)
There's always the large population of Good Catholics in the CSA.
Of Course, President Hoover isn't exactly a Good Catholic, so it might be that the CSA is best accessed by 'alternate means.'
QuoteI'm shocked and appalled that good, Catholic Irishmen would overlook good, Catholic Iberia and good Catholic Gran Colombia as potential friends and saviors on the world stage.
I'd throw GC in the same category as the Huns: Catholic and Evil. :)
Good Catholic has got to be an oxymoron...
New Switzerland had a catholic, we don't know where he went, but we had one.
No doubt he went to the bottom of the sea in a block of concrete. :)
Hey, he disregarded the "No Swimming" sign... Not our problem.